Global holidays

Global holidays are now available in the Release Planner. To set a holiday for sprint or release, select your iteration inside the planner and then navigate to the calendar icon to black out global vacation days for all users.

Get any holidays scheduled within your release

This will remove these days from your user capacity calculations so you get a much more accurate picture with little effort.

Item chart drill down

Do you like to drill down for more information? Well, the item chart has been updated to provide more information for an additional series. For example, you can first see how many items are sitting in each workflow step and then you can click on any given workflow step to see who is assigned those items.

You can dive deeper into your item charts by clicking on a section.

To set this up, just edit your item chart and select any series you wish to apply. You will find aggregation types like “sum” and “average” will include a “rate” field.

The Rate field will appear if you select “Sum” or “Average” under aggregation type

This is a multiplier, and it may come in handy if you wish to apply it as a flat bill rate for a bar chart display.